How many AP's do you plan on having? with the 4402 you can have up to 50 AP's, the 4404 can have up to 100. I run a 4404 at our school with currently 50 AP's and 200-250 wireless clients (plus wirless devices that studnets/staff bring in) If you never going to have more that 15 or so AP's i would think you could go the 2100 series route, otherwise i would go with the 4400 series.

How many AP's do you plan on having? with the 4402 you can have up to 50 AP's, the 4404 can have up to 100. I run a 4404 at our school with currently 50 AP's and 200-250 wireless clients (plus wirless devices that studnets/staff bring in) If you never going to have more that 15 or so AP's i would think you could go the 2100 series route, otherwise i would go with the 4400 series.

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My School has around 170 LWAPs running on 3 4404s. I have not yet managed a 2100.

It depends on how many APs you expect to have. The 2100s appear to be built more for low bandwidth environments. If you are planning to move to 802.11N or expect the 4-500 clients to be on simultaniously I would certainly go for a 4400 series. With simultanious 500 clients I would expect you to end up needing something like 25 APs depending on coverage area. A 4402 would be the ideal option leaving you with plenty of room for expansion.

From the Cisco Website:

"While Cisco 2100 Series Wireless LAN Controllers support transaction-oriented wireless environments such as handheld scanners in retail, the Cisco 4400 Series Wireless LAN Controllers are recommended for high-data-rate and multicast-intensive applications such as large data files, video, push-to-talk."

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